Jaguar Dreaming
Shamanic Spirit Animal Art - Jaguar
Original Watercolour Painting by Roberta Orpwood
Medicine of Jaguar:
Jaguar Dreaming arose from my lived connection with the Jaguar Shamans, a lineage of Spirit Beings who walk beside human souls as guardians through the earthly journey. In the ancient traditions of the Americas, Jaguar is the seer in the dark, the dreamer who moves between worlds with silent authority.
Jaguar teaches that we are always dreaming. With eyes open or closed, the dream unfolds.
She invites us to see clearly and to walk without fear in the liminal spaces, the sacred thresholds between light and shadow, life and death, self and other. In crossing these inner frontiers, we remember our unity.
Within this painting, an ancestral human face emerges from Jaguar, breathing life toward the West, the direction of release, healing, and surrender. Beneath her, lotus flowers rise from the deep waters of the psyche, symbols of awakening through the unconscious. Held within Jaguar’s breath rests a child, reminding us that all life is born through Spirit, and that the breath of creation lives within us still.
Jaguar Dreaming is a portal into shamanic wisdom, ancestral guidance, and the sacred art of conscious dreaming.
Roberta Orpwood
A London-based Shamanic Practitioner and internationally-published Oracle Illustrator known for her visionary watercolours, spiritual seership, and devotion to act of making sacred art.
Her paintings act as gateways for healing, awakening the spirit through colour, ceremony, and mythic symbolism. Rooted in Shamanic living and spiritual devotion, her artwork bridges the visible and invisible worlds, offering sacred mirrors of transformation and remembrance.
Roberta’s work has been published by Hay House, Blue Angel Publishing, and Quarto, and can be found in widely loved titles such as The Tree of Life Oracle, The Crystal Power Tarot, and The Ultimate Guide to Chakras.